Thanks to all for your kindly regards and comments :)
Steven, concerning to the public safety, our city are different from the known issues of the northern states of the country. In the link you quote for United States citizens are properly pointed for Mexico City: "no advisory is in effect". Also, the Centro Historico area (the venue are in the north of this Downtown area) is safe for tourism. But we will have in addition the special support and coordination with the Mexico City authorities for more vigilance and a special operative for reduce any risk to the minimum in the venue and their perimeter.
2014-04-21 22:55 GMT-05:00 Philippe Beaudette philippe@wikimedia.org:
On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 6:08 PM, Steven Walling <steven.walling@gmail.com
wrote:
it would be comforting to hear how we've assessed the bid regarding the safety issue, and how we're going to be prepared in case
the
worst (robberies, kidnappings) do happen.
Not a small concern. But, I should point out, one that we've dealt with before. We had laptops stolen in Argentina, and physical safety concerns in Alexandria, as I recall. I say this not to put a panacea of "oh, there there, it'll be fine" in place, but to assure people that this is something that I know that Garfield and Elle, and the rest of the WMF team working on this will consider and keep in mind. :-)
pb
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